took his time answering, and when he did his words come slowly.
"Ah, yes. Confusor it is. I was attempting to confound Heisenberg's
statement; but instead I think between us we have confused the issue.

"Heisenberg said that there was no certainty in our measurement of the
exact orbit of an electron. That the instrument used to measure the
position of the electron must inevitably move the electron; and
the greater the attempt at precise measurements, the greater the error
produced by the measurements.

"It was my hope," he went on, "to provide greater accuracy of
measurement, by use of statistics over the vast number of electrons in
orbit around the hydrogen atoms within the test mass. But this,
apparently, will not be.

"Now to see what it is we have done.

"First, let us make a re-expression of the laws of math-physics. You
understand that I am feeling my way here, for what we have done and
what I thought I was doing are quite different, and I am looking with
hindsight now at math-physics from the point of reality of this
thrust.

"As I understand it, there's a mutual exclusiveness of particles,
generally expressed by the statement that two particles may not occupy
the same space at the same time.

"But as I would put it, this means each particle owns its own place.
Now, inertia says that each particle not only owns its own place, but
owns its own temporal memory of where it's going to be unless
something interferes with it.

"Now let me not confuse you with semantics. When I say 'memory' and
'knowing' I am not implying a sentient condition. I am speaking of the
type of memory and knowing that is a strain in the structure of the
proton or atom. This is ... well, anyhow, not sentient. You will have
to translate for yourself.

"So to continue, inertia, the way I would put it, says that each
particle not only owns its own place, but owns its own temporal memory
of where it is going unless it is interfered with.

"In other words, the particle arriving here, now, got here by
remembering in this other sense that it was going from there to there
to there with some inherent sort of memory. This memory can't be
classified as being in relation to anything but the particle itself.
No matter how you move the things around it, as long as the things
around it don't exert an influence on the particle, the particle's
memory of where it's been and where it's going form a continuous
straight line through space and must, th